How Many of You Have Taken This Ride or Know Someone Who Did?

SSG Paul Forel — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:54:20 -0400

(Click on the photo and it opens up quite a bit, making it easier to see.)

You can see where the groundies blew down the trees for us so we could lower the basket.

A typhoon had blown through the day before at 150 kts and we spent the entire next day, picking up grunts with broken arms and legs.

I know what you guys are thinking and in fact, when we got back, our Platoon Leader, a Major, who had just transferred from Germany (you remember what duty in Germany was like back then, yes?) came over to us when we got back, took a long look at me and suggested it was 'time to hit those boots with a little polish'.

Here's to you, Major Norris.

Response by CSM Charles Hayden made Aug 21 at 2015 8:32 PM

CSM Charles Hayden — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 20:32:41 -0400

SSG Paul Forel, I encountered several MAJs of that same ilk!

Response by SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S. made Aug 21 at 2015 8:48 PM

SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S. — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 20:48:18 -0400

Now if that was a Jungle Perpetrator, the answer would be yes.
dustoff pilots fart rainbows!